So to Speak podcast: Are education schools secretly driving campus censorship?

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Are education schools secretly driving campus censorship? 

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by Lewis & Clark Associate Professor of English Lyell Asher to discuss his 2018 article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “How Ed Schools Became a Menace.”

Also joining the conversation is FIRE President & CEO Greg Lukianoff, co-author of the bestseller “The Coddling of the American Mind.”

Show notes:

• Podcast transcript
• “Educating School Leaders” by Arthur Levine
• Yale University: Protesters at Yale Threaten Free Speech, Demand Apologies and Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email
• “Please Report to Your Resident Assistant to Discuss Your Sexual Identity—It’s Mandatory! Thought Reform at the University of Delaware” by Adam Kissel
• “Hard Words: Why Aren’t Kids Being Taught to Read” by Emily Hanford
• “At a Loss for Words: How a Flawed Idea is Teaching Millions of Kids to be Poor Readers” by Emily Hanford
• “Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity” by Lyell Asher
• E.D Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum
• “Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom” by Lisa Delpit
• “Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life” by Derald Wing Sue et al.

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